Profilicity and Identity with Hans-Georg Moeller

[@sackwinski3158]

Cannot wait for this one

[@FauxieDaoJia]

'Genuine Pretending' is probably my favourite book on Daoism, now that I think about it.

[@AdamKarmona]

Self-esteem is the organic self marvelling at its profilic handiwork.

[@gunnarmuhlmann]

The young interviewer sounds like an old man in engagement with a young, more fresh brain😃 this being said: respect to the cognitive high level of the interviewer🙏🏻

[@yungdoge4195]

Great conversation, definitely picking up the book. Meta should have Hans-Georg back soon!

[@br2485]

Brilliant stuff

[@dionysianapollomarx]

Cool beans. Amazing read.

[@gh0s1wav]

Do you think that there's any piece of art (book or movie) that contrast profilicity and authenticity?

[@rossgopicotrain4042]

Interesting convo; and as each of the said types of identity is correlated with a specific epoch and concomitant dominant system of the day {i.e., religious (sincerity-Renaissance-Catholicism); economic (authenticity-Modernism-Capitalism); technological (profilicity-post-Modernism-internet}, one should be able to discern a number of implications from this theory not the least of which would be the following: the overarching theme vis-a-vis said phenomenon isn't whether any one is better or worse than the other (as posed by Mr. Moeller); it's that the easily discernible pattern embedded within said theme is the centrifugal force that has carried man from immersion with God (via the identity of sincerity); to one that will be, in the near future, fully immersed with machine (i.e., post-humanism via the identity of profilicity)! That is all!! RGB-Y3 out!!!

[@pokechamp3987]

Interesting discussion. I feel like identity is always there..since I happen to think everyone is unique..a man who'd live his entire life alone on an island for example would then still have one.

[@beatleswithaz6246]

It is impossible for someone to spend his life on an island because human infants need someone to care for them. In that process, there is all kinds of psychological and “cultural” (in the broad sense) imprinting and learning that goes on. Psychologically, humans are built to be social, and identity is always created out of parts of everything else.

[@beatleswithaz6246]

And if you could feed this baby and take care of it remotely somehow, it would develop a highly disordered psychology, probably wouldn’t even be recognizably human psychologically. It may not even understand the concept of identity.

[@echoecho3155]

I feel like the problem with the current state is people build profiles to be "authentic," and so they build often absurd identities with strange actions and performance in order to get a larger audience. I think of the e-girl who's so caked in makeup she looks like a mannequin, or the guy who dehydrates himself to exaggerate his musculature, or the monsters who abuse their children and record the reactions for equally monstrous viewers. I remember once someone said that people on Tiktok look "demon possessed," and I'm inclined to agree. Even when someone dresses normally, their mannerisms, patterns of speech, and framing looks robotic or cartoonish. It's freaky, and I feel like people exaggerate themselves more and more to have a good-looking, interesting profile. It may not be "fake," but it is creepy, unnatural, and dangerous in how it promotes dangerous behavior for views. I guess it sounds like he thinks people won't compete, which isn't true. People don't go on social media just to act out an identity, but to garner an audience, which produces some crazy results.

[@sudabdjadjgasdajdk3120]

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